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Time Quotes by Robin Hobb

52 Time quotes by Robin Hobb

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A morning that is too early and too late shows how time can feel tangled. The future waits only for you to live and write it, while the past can shape you without trapping you. By stopping endless overthinking, you can make clear moves from the present instead of replaying old patterns.

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“Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.”

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“Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?”

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“The future cannot take from us the days we have left…unless we let it. p. 46 The Fool to Fitz”

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“It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur.”

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Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

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“She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283”

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One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

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“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

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“All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines…

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“-Just tell me. Do I break the future? -Oh, child. We all do. That is both the danger and the hope of…

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“there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can…

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“And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to…

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“If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land…

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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how…

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“Then I'd be dead," I pointed out. "Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with…

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Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and…

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“That was Verity's way. MOnths had passed since we had last spoken but he took no times for greetings. Chade said it…

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“There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You…

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All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines…

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Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have…

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“It was a simple account of an incident from his childhood. At the time I recall that I wondered why he had…

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“Come, join your kin and lend strength to the weaker ones. Together, together, we journey, back to our beginnings and our endings.…

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“I stood for a time, overlooking the calm sea. Under the bright morning sun, it looked like hammered blue metal. A very…

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“A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them.…

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I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow…

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“At the moment of deciding not to argue further, he had given up all emotional investment in the situation. He had withdrawn…

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“There is a peculiar strength that comes to one who is facing the final battle. That battle is not limited to war,…

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“The White Prophet's premise seems simple. He wished to set the world in a different path than the one it had rolled…

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A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

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“I tried to unbelieve that it had happened, to force time back by sheer effort of will.”

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History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

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“To every creature is given both a place and a time, and when that time is over, we have to let them…

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“When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy.”

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“My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.”

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“You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.”

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“There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I”

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“The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm’s resurgence.”

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Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so…

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There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not…

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“Yet, all things must pass, but especially time, and with the months and then the years, I came slowly to have a…

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